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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

” “Mitsubishi Electric, a major general electronics maker , has been hit by a large-scale cyber attack , and it has been found that information about public and private business partners such as highly confidential defense-related and important social infrastructure such as electric power and railroad may leak out.”

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What is Employee Monitoring? Full Guide to Getting It Right

eSecurity Planet

These can come in a variety of forms we’ll discuss in more detail below, but the most common in a modern office setting is software monitoring, where a piece of software is installed onto employees’ computers, which can then track things such as web activity. The most obvious is performance tracking. In short, the results are mixed.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking High-Tech Cars

ForAllSecure

A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. Vamosi: In my book from 2011 When Gadgets Betray Us , I profiled a young Czech born streetwise car thief, an unlikely example of a high tech criminal. This streetwise criminal realized he could defeat the manufacturers' anti theft software with his own.

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White House Proposes Cybersecurity Legislation

Hunton Privacy

As we reported last week , on May 12, 2011, the Obama administration announced a comprehensive cybersecurity legislative proposal in a letter to Congress. In addition, the proposal includes a wide-reaching data breach notification law that is intended generally to preempt the existing state breach laws in 46 states plus Washington, D.C.,

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to run reliably when moving it from one computing environment to another. Contains are a standard unit of software that packages code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another. When I joined.